Daulatpur Jute Mills reopens after 9 yrs
The state-owned Daulatpur Jute Mills, which remained closed for over nine years, reopened yesterday.
The mill has started producing jute goods on an experimental basis capitalising on 15 quintals of raw material supplied from Khalishpur Jute Mills, Crescent Jute Mills and Platinum Jubilee Jute Mills, said Project Director Engineer Md Toffazal Hossain .
A major overhaul of the jute unit began on October 29 last year. It took six months to complete. There are 250 looms in the mill.
The jute mill will go into commercial production if experimental work is found successful, said the project Director.
Established in 1953 on 23 acres of land at Khalishpur, Daulatpur Jute Mills started its commercial production from 1955 and was nationalised in 1965.
It was closed down by BNP-led four-party alliance government on December 7 in 2002 on the plea of severe financial crisis.
At least 2000 workers, 175 employees and 46 officials are now required to run the unit to reach its annual production target of over 6000 tonnes of Jute goods, Project Director Toffazal Hossain said, adding: “At present, we have only 150 workers and seven officials”.
Decision to reopen the jute mill with four others was taken at a meeting of the Board of Directors of BJMC held on September 10 in 2010.
The four other closed state-owned jute mills are People's Jute Mills of Khulna, Quami Jute Mills of Sirajganj, RR Jute Mills and MM Jute Mills of Chittagong.
Of them, People's Jute Mills reopened on March 5 in 2011 while Quami Jute Mills on April 9 the same year.
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